Shock study shows how 42M recipients spend their food stamps - and they're not buying broccoli

Daily Mail ^ | May 20, 2024 | James Reinl

[HartleyMBaldwin]

A new study from the Institute of Duh.

[Red Badger]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Better than one in eight Americans receives SNAP. Somewhere in a little corner of Hell, LBJ is smiling.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Cut $27 billion over ten years. That’s 2.7 billion per year. Annual budget is 135 billion. That’s a 2% cut. Cry me a river.

[gibsonguy]

Yeah a real “shock” result

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I have heard a lot of “transfer payments” wind up “transferred” to riverboat casinos.

[markman46]

Geez I only get $23.00 of snap as a senior, that don’t buy much so no junk food.

[Telepathic Intruder]

One thing I’ve seen is people using food stamps to buy bottled water, and then empty the bottles onto the street and turn them in for the 10 cent deposit refund. Quite a waste of taxpayer money.

[posterchild]

Change the first word in the name from Supplemental to Primary and problem solved! /s

[markman46]

That would be the welfare $$ not the food

[JSM_Liberty]

So it looks like their diet is a fairly standard processed food American diet.

[ClearCase_guy]

Boxes of beans
Boxes of cheese
Boxes of powdered milk

Every month. Come on down and get your food handed to you.

[Alberta's Child]

Food stamps aren't intended to help people who need nutrition assistance. They're designed to subsidize grocery store chains and major food producers.

That's why nobody cares what these mutants use SNAP benefits for.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

That’s why I said “transfer payments” and not “SNAP.”

You do know the difference?

[Erik Latranyi]

McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, etc all lobby hard to allow food stamps to be used for their products.

[PGR88]

Better than one in eight Americans receives SNAP. Somewhere in a little corner of Hell, LBJ is smiling.

Its utterly corrupt. I know Ivy League MBA and graduate students, entire departments of such students in fact, who get food stamps.

One simply applies, claims little income as a student, and the monthly deposits start flowing.

[Restless]

Anyone who has stood behind a food stamper in the checkout line is fully aware of the garbage food that is purchased.

[rdcbn1]

SNAP is one of the biggest and most expensive scams perpetrated on the US taxpayer.

In fact our entire social welfare system has become a total scam.

In California, the combination of a totally unaccountable and non transparent welfare system combined with an pervasive false identity industry set up for illegal aliens allows people to set up multiple false identities and to receive welfare benefits under those multiple fake identities.

This includes many of the governemtnofficals who administrate the systems and the politicians who award the benefits.

It not for nothing that welfare officials are strictly forbidden to use photographic, finger print , DNA or other bio metric identity data to track welfare recipients.

[MtnClimber]